The only one

Chapter 3: the upper east siders

"First day on the job nugget" I say packing my purse with my camera and my internship papers. I pour nugget his bowl of food and he slowly walks toward it. I'm wearing a burgundy color dress with black tights underneath and black bootie heals. First impressions are important to me. I grab my coffee and head out the door with my stomach in knots. I ride the train to manhattan. I got off at my stop and everywhere I looked I saw Prada and Chanel. Those words meant nothing to me but to these people it meant the world. I walked down to the tall skyscraper where was going to be interning at. I signed in at the desk and got my name tag Naomi Wilson Intern. I had a small desk with a small Mac on it. I sat down and I man with a man bun probably in late 20s walked up to me.
"Are you the new intern?" He asks.
"Yes I'm Naomi" I say.
"Nice to meet you I'm Justin you will be interning or me" he says.
"I need a chai tea latte from the coffee shop around the corner feel free to get whatever you want" he says handing me his credit card. "We will go on a photo session when you get back"

"Okay thanks!" I say excitingly.
This guy seems pretty chill and really artistic. I go down to the coffee shop and order myself a iced coffee. I sit down waiting for them to make it on the nice leather chair. I hear someone arguing next to me. It was dan and a really pretty blonde chick. Maybe that's his ex girlfriend he was talking to me about. Yea she definitely is out of his league.

"Hey dan" I say
"Naomi?" He says
"What are you doing here?" He asks.
" I had to get coffee for my boss my internship is just right around the corner" I say
"Oh right".. He says
"This is Serena" he says.
"Hi" she says smiling at me she looked nice.
"Hi I'm Naomi" I say.
"Where are you from" she asks
"California" I say.
"Oh I love It there we have a beach house there" she says.
"Oh that's cool where"? I ask.
"Beverly Hills" she says.
"Oh of course" I say.
"Hey you should come over to our house and hangout you should meet jenny I bet you too would like each other." She says looking at dan.
"Yea that could be fun" he says.
"You wanna come over tonight I could take you?" he asks.
"Sure sounds great" I say. We all exchange numbers I haven't had friends In a while and it feels good.
The guy calls my order and I grab the too coffees checking my purse if I still have his credit card. I quickly made it back to the office. I knocked on his door.
"Come in" he says.
" I brought you you're coffee" I say sitting it on his desk. He takes a sip and then makes a face.
"It's too cold you'll have to get me a new one" he says.
I looked at him with unbelief.
He started laughing and said "gotcha".
"You'll come to know soon that at life magazine were pretty laid back" he says getting his camera equipment together.

"You can get you're camera ready we're going to go out now" he says cleaning his camera lens with a fancy cloth.
I get out my camera and slip the strap around my neck.
"Ya ready" he asks putting his shoes on which were off.
" yes!" I say excitingly.
We started to just walk around on the street. He took a photo of an old man sitting down on the sidewalk playing a banjo.
"Why did you take a photo of that man?" I ask confused.
"Have you even seen a copy of life magazine?" He asks.
"Yes I'm subscribed" I say.
"Well are image for our magazine is that we would show what the world is truly like and put beauty in to suffering." He says.
"This picture is inspirational if you ask me"
I nod quietly focused on the wise words he had just said.
We walk down an ally with graffiti on the walls I saw a guy probably in his 20s spray panting the word "hope" on the wall. I took a picture if him and it made him smile.
"Are you going to put that in the newspaper?" He asks with a Spanish accent.
"No sir I just thought what you were doing was inspirational." I said.
"Get a story to go with the picture" Justin says.
"Whats you're name sir" I ask.
"Servando" he says.
"Tell me why you decided to paint this in the wall" I said.
"Well I'm homeless and my wife and kids were killed by a gang. I was addicted to drugs and then one day a man walked up to me and told me it was going to be okay. I took that as sign from god that everything will be okay and to just have hope" he says " I just wanted everyone to know about hope" he says crying.
"That's beautiful Servando" I say tearing up myself.
"We need to get back Naomi thank you for you're time sir" Justin says.
"You have have found beauty in pain my dear" Justin says as we walk through the doors of the office.
"I want to ask the board if we can get this story and picture published" he says.
"What!?" I ask confused.
"This is too good to go to waste" "it gives me inspiration" he says.
"You can go home" he says.
"Thank you" I say.
I get home and put jeans on with my grey high tops and my baby blue flannel I straighten my hair and touch up my make up. I grab my purse and wait till dan knocks on the door.
I hear a knock and I get up to open the door.
" hey ya ready?" Dan asks.
"Yea!" I say locking my door.
We get to the enormous penthouse owned by dans dad and Serena's mom. I was overwhelmed.
"Don't worry I was like that my first Time too" dan says. I giggle and we walk into the living room/kitchen area.
"Hey you showed up" Serena says giving me a hug. She was wearing a nice outfit. What is these peoples casual. I didn't feel as bad when I saw another girl in their with sweat pants and a Tshirt on.
"Naomi this is jenny" Serena says.
"Hi" she says.
I smile.
"So who wants Chinese food?" Dan asks.
"ME" I say.
Everyone agrees and dan orders the food. We sit on the couch awkwardly waiting for dan.
"We should play a game" Serena suggests.
"Yea has anyone played spoons"? I ask
"Oh my god I love that game we have to play" jenny says. She gets up and gets 3 spoons and puts it in the coffee table in front of us. I hear a ding from the elevator. And a guy comes out. He had brown slicked back hair. He wore a suit and looked really important. "Chuck what do you want" Serena says in a rude tone.
"Ah no one told me we had family Bonding time" he says smirking.
He looked at me. I could feel my cheeks get hotter I was strongly attracted to him for some reason.
"Dan is this you're New girl"? He asks.
"No" I say.
"She speaks" he says.
"Leave Naomi alone" jenny says.
"Nice to meet you Naomi" he says smirking at me. "Now if you don't mind I need to get papers lily left for me" he says.
What about him was so attractive.
I wanted to know more about him.